Jetaholic
02-27-2007, 12:28 PM
Since Black History Month is about to come to an end, are there any blues fans out there?
Since I am a musician with a very strong blues background, I would like to take this time to pay recognition and respects to the great blues music that black people have provided us with. For all you rock fans (I myself am one of them), without the blues we would not have rock. Blues are the roots of the majority of the music we hear today...everytime I listen so some of the old rock of the 70s/80s, I notice that a great majority of the rock singers of yesterday developed a lot of their technique from the voice of black people. African Americans were blessed with great voices...I have wanted to learn to sing for years, but it's that soulful black voice that I have wished I could imitate.
And when I mention blues, I refer to the Mississippi Delta style blues...fathered by the likes of Robert Johnson. If any of you have seen the movie Crossroads with Joe Seneca and Ralph Matchio, you all know what I'm talkin' about. For those of you who have never seen the movie, you're missing out.
So to bring the great month of February to an end, AMEN to all of the black forefathers of great blues music!
Since I am a musician with a very strong blues background, I would like to take this time to pay recognition and respects to the great blues music that black people have provided us with. For all you rock fans (I myself am one of them), without the blues we would not have rock. Blues are the roots of the majority of the music we hear today...everytime I listen so some of the old rock of the 70s/80s, I notice that a great majority of the rock singers of yesterday developed a lot of their technique from the voice of black people. African Americans were blessed with great voices...I have wanted to learn to sing for years, but it's that soulful black voice that I have wished I could imitate.
And when I mention blues, I refer to the Mississippi Delta style blues...fathered by the likes of Robert Johnson. If any of you have seen the movie Crossroads with Joe Seneca and Ralph Matchio, you all know what I'm talkin' about. For those of you who have never seen the movie, you're missing out.
So to bring the great month of February to an end, AMEN to all of the black forefathers of great blues music!